Temporary Impasse

May is here. We are still toiling. Progress exists, but sometimes its tracks are covered.

Head to Hopeful Parents for my monthly post:

Temporary Impasse

Handle: Reshuffle to the Top

Leafing this post from September back to the top of the heap. Thinking of mom this weekend, hoping for either a run through of Hop on Pop or a few softshoe moves.

Handle

And I'll throw in a bonus rerun of another gift from my mom:

Mine

Here she is as her real self with my dad on their wedding day. My sister Kathy had this to say about them in this photo:"How beautiful, hopeful, clueless and handsome."

Growth

It's spring and everything is growing. As are we. Look how much my favorite flowers have grown:


















If I did not know these bright smirks like the back of my hand, I'd hardly recognize these young ladies.

Bucket-Fillers Need Not Apply

For earth week I opted to go green and recycle an article I was asked to write in 2008, but which I don't believe was ever published. Apologies to the publication and its elusive editor, if it did ever did go up.

Updated a tiny bit, head to Hopeful Parents for:

Bucket-Fillers Need Not Apply

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